Quotes About Teaching

It is one thing to hear truth, and agree with it. Many have come to believe these things simply because they are attracted to a system which is logically consistent. Or perhaps they are repelled by the shallowness of so much of our preaching and teaching today. Or they are the studious type, and like to read books by the Puritans." Martin went on. "But it is quite another thing to be given a vision of the glory of God and to be, like Job, undone by it.

More frequently, when husbands lose an understanding of the cross, they come to the point where they do not instruct their wives in the Word at all. Of course, as the head of the wife, an ignorant husband continues to teach, but the lessons have to do with how Christ is more interested in Monday Night Football than in communion with His bride.

the most contagious form of teaching is when an instructor loves his material in the presence of others—whom he also loves.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture [the Tauraat (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?

Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you wish to teach.

When a child's mind begins to wander because of something you (the teacher) have said, wander with it. When it begins to wander because of nothing you said, kick yourself in the posterior and say something worth wandering about!

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

local people notice we aren't there to learn from them but to teach them; we won't ask questions but will give answers; we aren't there to be with them but to train them; we won't build trust but will attempt to transform them; we're not there to dialogue but to lecture. Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, calls this a "subject-object relationship." Unchecked ethnocentrism turns human beings into objects to be manipulated.

in order to teach a robot to imitate even a limited range of human behavior, you would have to, in a sense, teach it everything about the world.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.